Disney has six theme park resorts around the world — in California, Florida, Tokyo, France, Hong Kong and China — and each location has a different ticketing strategy.

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Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Calif., is now open after a stunning refurbishment, enhanced with bold new colors and pixie dust, among other enhancements. (Christian Thompson/Disneyland Resort)

Disney ticket prices vary widely around the world, with some theme parks allowing access for as little as $40 and others charging as much as $159 for a single day’s admission.

Disney has six theme park resorts around the world — in California, Florida, Tokyo, France, Hong Kong and China — and each location has a different ticketing strategy.

Some Disney parks employ variable date-based pricing that charges more on busy days and less at slower times to help distribute attendance throughout the year. Others still take a one-price-fits-all approach. Each park offers discounts for multi-day tickets. Disney resorts with more than one theme park charge a premium for park-hopping access.

Let’s take a closer look at the cost of admission at every Disney theme park in the world, ranked from most to least expensive. We will keep things simple by focusing on one-day, one-park adult ticket prices at each location.

Visitors stroll Pandora — The World of AVATAR, at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. (Photo by Matt Stroshane, Walt Disney World Resort)

6) Walt Disney World resort — $109 to $159

The most expensive tickets at any Disney park in the world can be found at the Walt Disney World resort in Florida. The 47-square mile resort is home to four theme parks: Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

Disney World uses a complex date-based ticketing system with at least nine variable prices throughout the year ranging from a low of $109 to a high of $159.

Adult admission was $3.50 when the Magic Kingdom opened in 1971, or just under $22 in today’s dollars.

Guests take a selfie on Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland in Anaheim. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

5) Disneyland resort — $104 to $149

Tickets for the original Disney theme park in California are only slightly below their Florida counterparts.

1) Tokyo Disney resort — $40 to $70

The least expensive Disney theme parks come with a bit of an asterisk. Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea offer a ticket pricing strategy unique to the Japanese parks.

While the Tokyo parks don’t use date-based pricing like some other Disney parks, they do offer variable pricing based on what time of day you enter the parks.

A one-day, one-park ticket at the Tokyo Disney resort costs $70. In a unique twist, the Japanese parks also offer a $51 Starlight ticket for visitors arriving after 3 p.m. and a $40 evening ticket for those showing up after 6 p.m.

That asterisk means the $70 one-day, one-park ticket at the Tokyo Disney resort would be more expensive than the lowest-priced $56 regular ticket at Shanghai Disneyland and the $68 Mini ticket at the Disneyland Paris resort.

But that same $70 every-day-of-the-year ticket at the Tokyo parks still remains lower than the mid- and upper-tiers at the variably-priced Disney parks in France and China.

The $40 evening and $51 Starlight tickets are less expensive than any other Disney theme park ticket but do not offer a full day’s admission.

By comparison, the last time Disneyland ticket prices were below $40 was in 1999.

All prices are based on the rates posted to the individual Disney theme park websites and were converted to the nearest U.S. dollar from the local currency.

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